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De virtuelle verdeners læringspotentiale – En analyse af Second Lifes egnethed som læringsplatform for et virtuelt læringsmiljø

open access: yesLæring og Medier, 2009
Artiklen er en analyse af Second Lifes egnethed som platform for udvikling af et 3D-online læringsmiljø, der er inspireret af ideerne bag edutainment og pervasive learning.
Lillian Wiese
doaj   +1 more source

François Jullien: The Double Transit of Human Life

open access: yesElementa, 2022
François Jullien finds the “unthinkable” in our philosophical tradition in his journey to the Chinese world. One of these ideas is precisely that of understanding nature as a process, not formulated in terms of continuity but of transit.
Luis Roca Jusmet
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Developing a Second Life virtual field trip for university students: an action research approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Background: Integrating 3D virtual world technologies into educational subjects continues to draw the attention of educators and researchers alike. The focus of this study is the use of a virtual world, Second Life, in higher education teaching.
Andrews, Lynda   +2 more
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Pulmonary Dysfunction Is Associated With Sleep Study Abnormalities in Children With Sickle Cell Disease: A Multicenter Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Pulmonary dysfunction and sleep abnormalities are common in children with sickle cell disease (SCD) and are associated with worse clinical outcomes. Whether spirometry abnormalities are associated with polysomnography (PSG) findings remains unclear.
Ammar Saadoon Alishlash   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Metaverse Users' Purchase Intention in Second Life

open access: yesJournal of Metaverse
The Metaverse is a regenerated digital environment that fully immerses people in a virtual world experience. It is often referred to as the "internet of the future" and has drawn the interest of businesses and academics as well.
Beste Demirci   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Blue Skies: Education in Second Life [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This article examines the educational possibilities of the online environment of Second Life, by Linden Labs. Second Life’s economic growth has attracted the attention of corporations, non-profit organizations and government entities.
Poole, Matthew
core   +1 more source

Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Outsourcing Life

open access: yesProceedings, 2021
Humans have always been inspired by the living, representing, simulating, and emulating it. Today we are witnessing the extension of life into a “Third Life”—the “First Life” being the biological life and the “Second Life” the life in the symbolic ...
Pier Luigi Capucci
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Education Unleashed: Participatory Culture, Education, and Innovation in Second Life [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Part of the Volume on the Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and LearningWhile virtual worlds share common technologies and audiences with games, they possess many unique characteristics. Particularly when compared to massively multiplayer online
Cory Ondrejka
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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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